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To Be Equitable, US Urban Green Infrastructure Planning Must Transform
To Be Equitable, US Urban Green Infrastructure Planning Must Transform … and Research. Stormwater management features at the Henrietta Lacks Educational Park in … of the Urban Systems Lab. More details and other project publications can be found at www.giequity.org . …
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Toward a more inclusive definition of green infrastructure
… and resilience goals while improving the lives of urban residents. How green infrastructure is defined guides … parks, trail systems, gardens, and other natural landscape features that provide benefits for people and the … green energy and alternative transportation technologies within their definitions of GI. Green infrastructure …
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Peter Groffman elected president of the Ecological Society of America
… on ecosystem biogeochemical processes related to carbon and nitrogen cycles. In addition to his role at Cary, he is a … . “From microbes to global biogeochemical cycles, from urban to forest ecosystems, from soil to water, from …
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Gary M. Lovett: Scientist, Mentor, Advocate, & Friend
… early research transformed how scientists calculate forest nitrogen budgets. He was among the first to document that … - from particles in the air - delivered as much or more nitrogen to forests than rainfall. Gary also advanced … growth, carbon sequestration, and nitrogen pollution to streams. One of his first efforts translating science …
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How Lyme disease became unstoppable
… and suppression, there is a concept called the wildland-urban interface, or WUI. It is the transition zone where … Lyme phenomenon in a similar fashion. It is in the wildland-urban interface in places like Connecticut and New … north. And as Ostfeld has stated in interviews with other publications, it is likely doing the same for the …
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Beech Bark Disease
… understood, but it may be affected by the level of nitrogen in the tree 1 . Like many plant-eating insects, … scale’s population growth is limited by the amount of nitrogen it can obtain from its food. In eastern North … Scotia in 2012. It is killing beech trees in forested and urban areas of that province, causing up to 70% mortality of …
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Strategies for achieving equitable green infrastructure in US urban planning
… for achieving equitable green infrastructure in US urban planning Research team puts forth … Green infrastructure can help manage urban hazards, such as flooding, extreme heat, and toxic … press release .) Discover related resources, including publications, essays, a white paper , a Story Map , …
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Livestock antibiotics and rising temperatures disrupt soil microbial communities
… microbial community composition and function, carbon and nitrogen cycling, and interactions among microbes. They … microbial communities emerging at each temperature tested. Within these assemblages, we saw reduced diversity and fewer …
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West Nile virus infection risk is higher in less affluent neighborhoods in Baltimore, MD
… In Baltimore, Maryland, people living in low-income urban neighborhoods are more at risk of contracting West … consist of similar blocks of rowhomes and are located within 2km of each other, minimizing environmental … how mosquito-borne disease risk varies across the urban landscape and socioeconomic divides. As this work …
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The smell of the city
… cities—New York, Los Angeles, Beijing and Delhi—the urban sky is much cleaner in the United States than it was a … are precursors to the formation of ozone and aerosols in urban air, which have detrimental effects on human health. Within VOCs are two categories of compounds—chain …
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